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CHAPTER 51
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2026-03-17 21:27:08
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IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 57
Eliza's POVThree weeks passed like a dream.My aunt stayed. She gardened with Clara, cooked dinners I remembered from childhood, filled the house with laughter I hadn't known was missing. Adam watched her the way he watched everything—quiet, assessing, slowly letting his guard down."She's different," he said one night. "From before.""She's free. That's what different looks like."He pulled me close. "And you? Are you free?"I thought about it. The war was over. The secrets were told. The woman who'd betrayed my mother was sitting in my living room, teaching my daughter to fold paper cranes."I'm getting there."---The letter came on a Tuesday.Plain envelope. No return address. My name in handwriting I didn't recognize.I opened it in the kitchen, coffee in hand, Clara's laughter drifting in from the garden.Eliza,I'm writing because there's something you ne
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 59
Eliza's POVThe man arrived on a Thursday.I was in my office at Clara's House, reviewing budgets, planning expansions, building the future my mother had dreamed. Adam was with Clara at the park. My aunt was in the garden, teaching a new resident how to prune roses.Normal. Peaceful. Everything I'd fought for.Then the receptionist knocked."There's a man here to see you. He says it's urgent."I looked at the clock. "I don't have appointments until—""He says he has information about your mother's accounts. Accounts no one knows about."My pen stopped moving."Send him in."---He was older than I expected. Sixty, maybe. Gray suit, gray hair, gray eyes. The kind of man who spent his life in the background, watching numbers, keeping secrets."Ms. Sterling. Thank you for seeing me.""Who are you?""My name is Harold Vance. I was your mother's accountant. F
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 58
Eliza's POVThe files sat on my desk for one week.Every morning, I walked past them. Every night, I locked them in the safe. Adam watched me circle them like a woman standing at the edge of a cliff, trying to decide if she wanted to jump."What are you afraid of?" he asked on the seventh day.I didn't answer. Because I didn't know.The truth was in those files. Every name, every date, every crime my mother had died trying to expose. I could release them. Burn the Collective to the ground. Finish what she started.But something held me back.Clara ran into the room, a paper crane in her hand. "Mama! Look!"I knelt down. She'd learned to fold them perfectly now—sharp edges, careful creases. My aunt had taught her."Beautiful, baby.""Great-Aunt says cranes are for wishes. What do you wish for?"I looked at the files. At the weight of forty years sitting on my desk."I wish
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 56
Eliza's POVThe photograph sat on my desk for three days.My mother and my aunt. Young. Laughing. Innocent. A world away from the women they'd become. One dead. One carrying the weight of forty years.I picked it up every morning. Looked at it. Tried to reconcile the girl in the image with the woman who'd sat in my kitchen, holding my daughter's hand, asking for nothing.She would have forgiven you.I'd said that. Believed it. But forgiveness wasn't mine to give.The phone rang. I almost ignored it. But something in the sound made me pick up."Eliza Sterling.""Ms. Sterling." A voice I didn't recognize. Professional. Careful. "My name is Margaret Vane. I'm Silas Vane's daughter."The world stopped."I'm calling because my father is dying. He's asked to see you."---Adam's POVI found Eliza in the study, staring at the wall.She'd been there for an hour.
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 55
Eliza's POVI didn't tell Adam about the letter.Not because I wanted to keep secrets. Because I needed to hold it alone first. Just for a little while. Long enough to decide what it meant.Clara's House was real. My mother's dream, built by the sister who'd betrayed her. A place where women who'd lost everything could learn to stand again.I sat in my mother's office for an hour after writing the letter. Read through her files, her notes, her plans. She'd mapped out everything—the programs, the funding, the women she wanted to help. She'd died before she could make it real.But my aunt had finished it. In her name. In silence. For forty years.That's the price, I'd told her. Living with it.She'd been living with it every day. Building something beautiful from the wreckage of what she'd destroyed.I didn't know if that was enough. Didn't know if it could ever be enough. But I understood it. More than I wan
IN LOVE WITH HIS ENEMY CHAPTER 54
Eliza's POVSunday arrived faster than I wanted.Three days of pretending everything was normal. Three days of breakfast with Clara, dinner with Adam, board meetings that meant nothing. Three days of watching the clock and feeling the weight of the unknown pressing against my chest.Adam had kept his promise. We'd planned. Reyes had a team on standby. Mira was tracking the number, trying to trace it. Chloe—still trying, still somewhere out there—had sent word through channels I didn't ask about: Be careful. Some threads were never cut. Some people never left.I didn't know what that meant. But it settled in my bones like a warning.---The cemetery was quiet when I arrived.Old graves, new graves, stones worn smooth by time. My mother's plot was at the top of the hill, overlooking the city she'd loved. I'd come here a hundred times since the trial. A hundred times to talk to her, to tell her about Clara, to let her
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